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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.

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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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All Greatest Medicine Need People Teach
The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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Able Antecedent Foretell Future Meditate Must Physician Present Thing
The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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Common Crowd Dignity Ensure Healthy Look Physician Plump Require
Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Both Constitute Disease Immoderate Sleep Watchfulness
War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Proper School Surgeon War
Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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Brain Jest Joy Know Laughter Men Only Ought Pain Pleasure Sorrow
Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Amulet Belief Incantation Mainfestation Paient Prayer Work
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Astrology Knowledge Physician Right Without
The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Aromatic Bath Day Every Have Health Massage Scent Way
If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Doctor Fool Good Not Own
A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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Being Best Blessing Derive Find Human Man Ought Persona Sensible Thought Well
Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Female Fuse Male Moorish Noth ower Same Soil Thing
Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Great Opportunity Time Weather Wherein
The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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Blessing Consider Food Greatest Health Human Let Man Medicine Wise
Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Brain Drang Foretold Function Structure Wine
Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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Cure Disease Fire Iron Medicine Those

…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.

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